Jang Bahadur in Europe: The first Nepalese mission to the West, Kathmandu: Sahayogi Press, 1983 and Mandala Book Point, 2016. 320 and 306 p. (Translation and commentary on a travelling companion's account of the 1850 visit to Europe by the Nepalese prime minister. The revised and expanded 2016 edition includes the full text of a magazine article attributed to the Nepali crossing sweeper engaged by Jang while in London. Further details are on the Jang Bahadur in Europe page on this site).

(co-edited with David N.Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka) Nationalism and ethnicity in a Hindu kingdom: the politics of culture in contemporary Nepal, Amsterdam: Harwood, 1997. 623p. (Reprinted with new introduction as Nationalism and Ethnicity in Nepal, Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2008. A partial preview of the earlier edition is available at http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n4FQMEiZcrIC )

(with the late Martin Hoftun and William Raeper) People, Politics and Ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal, Kathmandu: Mandala, 1999. 425p. (Incorporating material by Martin Hoftun and William Raeper in Spring Awakening (New Delhi: Viking, 1992), and extensive new sections by Hoftun and Whelpton.)

An account of my work as a VSO teacher of English in Nepal, in Michael Edwards(ed.), Arriving where we started. 25 years of Voluntary ServiceOverseas, London: VSO/ITDG, 1983, p.52-63. (available at http://linguae.weebly.com/vso-reminiscences.html)

`Nepalese Political Parties - Developments since the 1991 Election', in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, No.8, 1995, p.17-41.

`Political identity in Nepal: state, nation and community', in David N.Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds.), Nationalism and ethnicity in a Hindu kingdom: the politics of culture in contemporary Nepal, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997.

Review of Mahendra Lawoti, Towards a Democratic Nepal. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69:1, 2006, pp.160-62

Review of Vijay Kumar Manandhar, A Comprehensive history of Nepal-China relations up to 1955 A.D. Studies in Nepali History and Society, in Studies in Nepali History and Society, vol. 10, no.2, December 2005, p.480-87

Review of Chaitanya Mishra, Essays on the Sociology of Nepal, READ, forthcoming

`Supporting beginners’ use of Nuntii Latini with GlobaLinguist’s WordChamp website’, published at http://www.circe.be/content/view/134/332/lang,en/, January 2008 (site of European Community-funded project for promotion of IT in Classics teaching)

Lecture on `Christianity and Nepali Society' delivered at Social Science Baha, Kathmandu on 3 December 2012. Recording and PowerPoint available on the Baha website, PowerPoint also on the NEPALI page on this site.

Lecture on `Jang Bahadur in Europe' delivered to the Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, on 30 March 2016 ( slightly altered version of the 18 March 2016 London talk). Available as a video on YouTube. The PowerPoint can be downloaded from the `Moti Lal Singh' section of the NEPALI page.

Presentation on `Juddha Shamsher and the 1934 Earthquake' at Shaligram Hotel, Lalitput on 19 July 2018 and at the 8th Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalayas at the Shanker Hotel, Kathmandu, 26 July 2018.

(Profile article by Sewa Bhattarai, based on a 90-minute telephone interview and her attendance at a presentation on Juddha Shamsher and the 1934 earthquake at the Shaligram Hotel, Lalitpur, 19 July 2018) `The rest is history for John Whelpton', Nepali Times, 24 August 2018. On-line version (slightly corrected from the original) at https://www.nepalitimes.com/review/the-rest-is-history-for-john-whelpton/ and also on this site.

Miscellaneous teaching/lecturing materials, including a summary of Nepalese history from 1964 to 2014, Powerpoint presentations `Twilight of the Gods’ (on the end of the Nepalese monarchy), `Christians in the Himalayas’, and others on the History of English and the Indo-European Language Family and summaries of basic French, Spanish and Latin grammar.

(ii) UNPUBLISHED

`Supplementary entries (1989-1999) for World Bibliographical Series Nepal volume.'(184 brief notices of publications, originally commissioned by ABC-Clio for inclusion together with the material in the printed volume in an electronic version of the bibliography. Clio subsequently abandoned the project)

`The Portuguese secondary school English syllabus: problems and possibilities.' (Dip TEO project, Manchester University, 1986).( Presents the results of a survey of attitudes among Portuguese students and teachers towards the current syllabus and makes recommendations for the exploitation of language acquisition opportunities outside the classroom)

`Race relations and Portuguese schools with special reference to the Cape Verdean community.'

`Priests and politics: the role of the rajgurus in Nepal.'

`Jung Bahadur's visit to Britain and France', `Rajendra Bikram Shah', `Rana family autocracy', `The Nepali embassy in Britain', `Kot Massacre', `Jung Bahadur Rana', `Nepal and the Sepoy Mutiny in India', `Surendra Bikram Shah' in Cultural Encyclopaedia of Nepal (originally to be published in Kathmandu with Toyota Foundation finance but the project is now in abeyance).

`The Other Side of the Hill: learning Cantonese as a Second Language in Hong Kong’ (University of Hong Kong M.A. dissertation, 1998) (available online at http://chineselanguages.weebly.com/)

`Investigating Gwaigwongwa: Variation in the interlanguage of English-L1 Learners of Cantonese.'

`An investigation into the opinions of F4 students on the medium of instruction issue in Hong Kong secondary schools.'

`Juddha Shamsher and the 1934 Earthquake' (paper presented at the Kathmandu conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 25-27 July 2018).

`Between two big ones: earthquakes in the Nepali consciousness 1934-2015.' (paper preseted at the London `Epicentre to Aftermath' conference, 11-12 January 2019).

(iii) WORK IN PROGRESS/PROJECTED

A. Literature survey and archival research as part of `After the Earth Swayed', an investigation led by Professor Michael Hutt of London University into the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal with a comparative study of earlier quakes and the response to them. this will involve six weeks field work in the UK in summer 2017 and a further six weeks in 2018 in Nepal and India.

C. Preparation for publication by Himal Books of an edited version of my files on Nepalese politics (see B) from Janandolan I to Gyanendra’s October 2002 takeover

D. Editing of Ramesh Dhungel’s descriptive catalogue of the Hodgson Papers in the British Library to be hosted initially on the Digital Himalaya site (http://digitalhimalaya.com/hodgson ). This was publicly launched in July 2011 but editing and addition of search functions is continuing. .

E. Compilation of a collection of previously published articles on the Rana period by various authors. To be published in Kathmandu by Martin Chautari.

H. Research for Centre for Catholic Studies, CUHK, on `Christian Missions and Nepal, 1662-2008.’

I. Provision of advice to CNAS project `Preparation of Guidelines for Historical Documentary on Jang Bahadur Rana’s visit to England and his Foreign Relations’ (financed by Mahanta Shrestha and associates)